Google's AI Search Feature Suggested Using Glue to Keep Cheese Sticking to a Pizza

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https://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-ai-overviews-glue-keep-cheese-pizza-2024-5

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Google's new search feature, AI Overviews, seems to be going awry.

The tool, which gives AI-generated summaries of search results, appeared to instruct a user to put glue on pizza when they searched "cheese not sticking to pizza."

A screenshot of the summary it generated, shared on X, shows it responded with "cheese can slide off pizza for a number of reasons," and that the user could try adding "about cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."

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